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After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded. And its findings suggest that like research in the social sciences, cancer research has a replication problem.

Researchers with the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology aimed to replicate 193 experiments from 53 top cancer papers published from 2010 to 2012. But only a quarter of those experiments were able to be reproduced, the team reports in two papers published December 7 in eLife.

New ways to help people with PTSD, depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders are desperately needed. An estimated 30 percent of people with depression, for instance, don’t get relief from current treatments. Psychedelics, some researchers and clinicians believe, may help.

Bacteria on the surface of your skin may be playing a vital role in preventing, or failing to prevent, the spread of eczema around your body.

Researchers link the ability of the cells to bind and present DNA from pathogens and cell death to anemia, which is common in COVID-19, and immune activation.

While home tests have distinct advantages, most who test positive don’t come to the attention of health officials unless they see a doctor.

When Aaron Rodgers and Nicki Minaj went viral for falsely linking COVID vaccines to infertility, urologists stepped in with a new campaign focused on the virus and erectile dysfunction.

There is nothing ideologically neutral about grades, and nothing ideologically neutral about the idea we can neatly and tidily do away with them, says Jesse Stommel

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